Integration and Apex Utilities

Apex allows you to integrate with external SOAP and REST Web services using callouts. You can use utilities for JSON, XML, data security, and encoding. A general-purpose utility for regular expressions with text strings is also provided.

• Invoking Callouts Using Apex

• JSON Support

  JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) support in Apex enables the serialization of Apex objects into JSON format and the deserialization of serialized JSON content.

• XML Support

  Apex provides utility classes that enable the creation and parsing of XML content using streams and the DOM.

• ZIP Support

  Take advantage of a native Apex Zip library to create and extract ZIP archive files by using the class methods in the Compression namespace.

• Securing Your Data

  You can secure your data by using the methods provided by the Crypto class.

• Encoding Your Data

  You can encode and decode URLs and convert strings to hexadecimal format by using the methods provided by the EncodingUtil class.

• Using Patterns and Matchers

  Apex provides patterns and matchers that enable you to search text using regular expressions.